Chapter 5 Crimson Goes on Sale
The ignorance of love is like a candy that doesn't know the taste, curiosity, joy, and when you taste it, you can't help but continue. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After that night, although Yu Bai and Zhao Xueman did not go any further on the surface, they neither held hands nor hugged. But the two are getting closer and closer in their hearts. The score came out, as Yu Bai said, Zhao Xueman scored 579 points in the test, and passed the first line. In this regard, Zhao Xueman was shocked by the prophecy of Yu Bai, and the future was worry-free, and the atmosphere became more and more lively when the two met.
Almost every night, they go out on a date, or stroll and talk together, or go to the snack street to eat together. In less than half a month, the two of them actually played all the places they could play in the county, in Zhao Xueman's words, from childhood to adulthood, including three years of high school, they were not happy during this time.
In this regard, Yu Bai replied with a smile: I will try my best to make your life as happy as it is now.
Happy times always slip away inadvertently, and when you find out, there are no regrets, only full of memories.
There are happy and unhappy, "Scarlet Years" has undergone the final additions, deletions and revisions of a total of 23 articles, and has been serialized in "Fireworks" magazine for two-thirds.
As for sales, in the words of the deputy editor-in-chief Fan Fan, it has reached a new high. Yu Bai also read the sample issue, and completely regarded his Yu Bai's name and article as the main feature. In addition to the original subscription, almost most people bought it in the name of Yu Bai. What follows is not something unhappy, because most people buy it, and after reading it, they find that they have been deceived.
Because they didn't see what they liked in the so-called Yu Bai's first personal essay collection "Scarlet Years" after winning the championship.
For example, there are no spicy words, witty sarcasm, and blunt revelations.
What's there?
It's full of a middle school student, pretentious, moaning without illness, squeaking and squeaking about the trivialities of life and personal thoughts. This makes readers who want to read articles like "Peeping in the Rain" and "Seeking Treatment" naturally scold.
Letters from readers of magazines are like a fun part of the game.
Through dinner, Yu Bai learned that there were all kinds of scolding in the letter, some said that he was grandstanding, some said that he couldn't write, and some even said that he was not a fart. If you see these as things that make people unhappy, then Yu Bai is basically not affected, and he is still very moist.
is not in a hurry to write "Sadness Flows Into a River", and he will date and play with Zhao Xueman in his spare time.
If Yu Bai's living conditions are seen by those readers who scold him, it is estimated that it will be a different kind of chaotic war.
That's what you're not happy about, and there are still a lot of happy things.
Wang Tansheng said that the release date of "Scarlet Years" has been set, just on July 12, in addition, the reason why Wang Tansheng is so anxious is that the letters received by "Fireworks" magazine from readers praise people more than scold.
Yu Bai had expected this for a long time, so he would ignore it quite calmly at that time, the reason is very simple, "Fireworks" magazine was originally a youth book for middle school students, and those who came here and didn't see what they wanted to see were only a few. So when those "outsiders" blow away with a gust of wind, the back is naturally the good news and like.
The reason to like it is so simple.
"I like this kind of writing that exudes a strong sense of poetry, and although it is bland, it writes about my life blandly."
"Pleasantly surprised, very pleasantly surprised. I bought "Fireworks" with my girlfriend and was reading the serialized part of "A City", but after I bought it, I found that it was gone, but it was replaced by "Scarlet Years" I was a little indignant at the beginning, so I wanted to see what the story was, so I took a look at it in the crowd, I completely liked "Scarlet Years" and completely liked the author Yu Bai. ”
"It's really hard to imagine that someone can write about middle school life like this, how do I feel that I don't live under the same blue sky as him?"
"I feel like my life is like a dark cloud, one by one, all of them are so rich that they can't be dispersed. This is what I quoted from the original article, I graduated from high school, I broke up with my boyfriend, and I feel like there are a lot of words in it that say I ......"
“……”
The above is what Fan Fan said to Yu Bai, and after listening to it, Yu Bai just smiled.
Yu Bai knows very well that middle school boys and girls are actually very simple, so simple that they will easily be attracted by dreamlike things, just like words in a gorgeous coat, which is heartbreaking, because Yu Bai was one of the "victims" in his previous life.
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At the same time that "Scarlet Years" has aroused a strong response, major bookstores across the country have quietly subscribed to Yu Bai's first collection of essays that are being printed, and will be sold on the shelves in the near future.
July 12 is a good day.
On this day, he got up early, because he made an appointment with Zhao Xueman to go to lunch together, and the place for lunch was next to a Xinhua bookstore in the central square of the county.
The time of the appointment between the two was half past eleven, but Yu Bai ran over at eleven o'clock, because he wanted to see how many people would buy his book.
In Yu Bai's memory, in his previous life, he had the habit of going to bookstores to buy books after college, because in the past, he either went to bookstores to buy pirated books or read e-books, and he didn't have the idea of going to bookstores to buy genuine copies.
As soon as he entered, Yu Bai found that the bookstore seemed a little empty, because there were not many people, and a few parents were buying books like colorful comic books with their children who had just entered elementary school. Looking at it from the side, there are people scattered everywhere, either walking slowly, looking at the shelves, or holding a book in their hands and constantly flipping through it.
Yu Bai knew very well that the purpose of their doing this was nothing more than to find a book they liked, or whether it was suitable for reading this book.
Originally, he wanted to ask the bookstore owner, because he didn't see the advertisement of his book from the door or anywhere else, but he quickly realized that his book should be in the leftmost row of bookshelves, because almost all of them were new books that had just been put on the shelves.
Then he walked over, looked for it on the bookshelf one by one, and ...... Twice......
After searching for it three times, Yu Bai wondered, because after searching the entire bookshelf several times, he didn't find the shadow of "Scarlet Years" at all, as if it had never appeared, and there was no trace of it.
Immediately, Yu Bai was a little disappointed, looked up again at the few poor people around him who came in to buy books, and smiled self-deprecatingly, "What am I, I just participated in a competition, ordinary people who have just graduated from high school, a small county like Qiao Ping, should not have received goods at all." Maybe you don't even know about my book. ”
The more he thought about Yu Bai, the more determined he became, and he didn't realize that a group of people outside quietly and silently surrounded him.
At a glance, you will find that everyone has a book with a beautiful cover in their hands, and two or three of them also hold two A4-sized posters in their hands, and Yu Bai's name on them is particularly conspicuous, and next to them is the book in their hands, which is called "Scarlet Years".
And Yu Bai, who was caught in thoughts, came back to his senses and sighed softly, and prepared to go out, counting the time Zhao Xueman was about to come.
I just raised my head, and before I could take a step, I was startled by the scene in front of me.
“Surprise!!”
Surprise! It's still a big surprise!
With this cry of surprise, he saw Zhao Xue looking at him with a smile on her face at first glance, and what she was holding in her hand was the "Scarlet Years" that she had just been looking for.
Not only that, but he also saw Xu Kai, Wang Yao, Geng Qiankun, and even Li Weiwei, who he hadn't seen for more than a month, all of whom were staring at Yu Bai with big eyes open at the moment.
"You ...... How do you guys ......?"
Yu Bai originally wanted to say, how did you get together, but due to the sudden excitement, it was a little difficult to speak. It was this disadvantage that made him feel a surprise behind him again.
“Surprise!!”
turned around and looked at the past, he still knew the people this time, and he was quite familiar with them, Lou Yuanming, Bian Mengmeng, Li Ran and everyone who had been in the same class with him for three years.
"You're all here."
At this time, the originally quiet bookstore was a little lively by this group of people, and the bookstore owner walked over with a smile and said to Yu Bai.
"You're Yu Bai? It's really good, if you didn't get to us Qiao Ping first, you can still produce characters like you, and they have all published books. Also, you classmates are not bad, originally I only bought dozens of copies for the sake of our fellow villagers, and I didn't expect to sell them, but who knew that they came early in the morning to buy all your books, you talk, I'm leaving. ”
These words made Yu Bai a little emotional for a while, not only because of the reunion of his classmates after the college entrance examination, but also because of their quiet actions.